Title I Grants to Local Educational Agencies in North Carolina

Four prime records, one statewide Title I cell

This tie keeps USAspending assistance where CFDA 84.010 meets North Carolina place of performance. The dollar book is $2,037,090,498.10. The award count is 4. Title I, Part A formula funds commonly post as a small number of awards to the state educational agency, which then subgrants to LEAs. Four prime rows do not mean four school districts received the entire book. They mean four award records carry the catalog number and the state code.

The join does not prove that North Carolina’s free-and-reduced-price lunch share, census poverty, or school-count caused $2,037,090,498.10. Those are other series. This packet has no LEA list and no school-level split. Correlation is not causation.

A reader who treats the cell as North Carolina’s full federal education total has left the CFDA-by-state definition. The 4 figure is a record count, including modifications in the extract, not a count of Title I schools or eligible children.

The implied mean is an SEA-scale quotient

Four awards under $2,037,090,498.10 imply a mean near $509,272,625 per award. That average is an artifact of how formula education grants are filed, not a typical district allocation. The packet has no median and no share sitting on the largest single record among the four.

Volume and dollars diverge on purpose here: a thin award tape and a thick dollar column. Cite both. USAspending.gov is the source; SpendingVault does not recast the mean as a Wake County or Charlotte-Mecklenburg Title I grant.

Questions

How much Title I spending is in North Carolina?

USAspending.gov shows $2,037,090,498.10 in CFDA 84.010 obligations coded to North Carolina across 4 awards. The join uses the program number and North Carolina place of performance. The total is obligations, not outlays.

Why only 4 awards for more than $2 billion?

Title I formula funds often post as a few prime awards to the state educational agency. The extract counts 4 records tagged to CFDA 84.010 and North Carolina. The implied mean is about $509,272,625 per award. That mean is not a typical LEA allocation.

Is $2.04 billion North Carolina’s full federal spending?

No. $2,037,090,498.10 is only the Title I Grants to Local Educational Agencies cell. Other CFDA programs with North Carolina place of performance sit on the statewide hub. Nationwide 84.010 is not limited to North Carolina.

Do these obligations equal cash spent in classrooms?

No. $2,037,090,498.10 is an obligation sum. Outlays are a different USAspending series. LEA subgrants and school-year spending can lag the federal obligation.